Hi,
Thanks everyone for the feedback!
It's actually quite unbelievable, but I have this working in less than
an hour. I found a USB camera that I already had that is supported by
uvideo(4).
fswebcam is talking to it nicely and capturing a still every 15
seconds. ffmpeg is stitching the stills together into a video! It's
interesting to see ffmpeg threaded.. it's using 362% of my cpu! It is
making the CPU temperature go up though!
Pretty amazing. Thanks again!
Cheers,
Steve Williams
On 15/11/2021 10:21 a.m., Steve Williams wrote:
Hi,
I have an OpenBSD server (APC) that runs 7x24 hosting my email,
webserver, etc.
As the season changes to winter, I thought of setting up a camera to
do some timelapse photography out of the window pointing at the
mountains.
I am kind of lost in the huge variety of options... IP connected
security camera, webcam... and whether to do the timelapse in the
camera, or to have that controlled on the server... (taking a photo
every x minutes and saving it on the OpenBSD server).
I was trying to avoid having the images stored on an SD card in the
camera as then physical access would be required to periodically
extract the images / movie.
If it's a USB camera, it would need to be supported by OpenBSD. But
there are IP cameras, some which require drivers, some don't. It's a
crazy complex world.
Does anyone have recommendations to accomplish this? It's just a
hobby so I don't want to spend a huge amount of money on it.
Thanks,
Steve Williams
